The Sounder Principle, or, Don't Get Too Comfortable

In the film Sounder from the ‘70s about a poor black farm family in Louisiana during the 1920s, the father played by Paul Warfield has just returned from a stint on a work farm.

In has absence his son developed an opportunity to go away to school. His father returns from prison and the son doesn’t want to go because he wants to be with his dad. The son relents after his father tells him he just can't get to used to being in that town or he’ll never achieve.

Though the context is different isn’t this the way it is for us today? We are that son who must not get too comfortable where we are because that very comfortableness blinds us to the fact that the world is changing around us and we’ll be left behind if we stay back doing the same thing we’ve always done in the same way we always did it.

This is a wonderful film for many other reasons as well. If you haven't seen it, rent it. The scene when the father arrives home is worth a lifetime.

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